Financial Controller

Cro Jack is a privately held group operating across North America and as of 2026 Europe. The group is a private, relationship-driven inventory solutions company connecting leading consumer brands with a curated network of vetted buyers worldwide.

We currently operate four active entities across Canada and the U.S., Barbados, with a UK entity and a Malta entity coming online. Books are maintained in Canadian and U.S. dollars, consolidated in USD, with GBP and EUR reporting added as the European structure goes live. The business is intercompany-heavy by design: capital and trade flows move between entities continuously. The group operates in English across every jurisdiction, including with its overseas partners.

This is a build role, not a maintenance role. The accounting function is being professionalized at the same time the group is expanding internationally, and the Controller is the person who owns that build.

The Controller owns the accounting close, the consolidation, and the integrity of the numbers across every entity in the group. You will be the senior accounting authority in-house, reporting to the CEO.

The work sits at the intersection of three things that rarely show up together:
modern finance technology, multientity and multi-currency consolidation and treasury, and physical cross-border trade. If you have done all three, this role is built for you.

• Own the monthly close across all group entities — Canadian, U.S., Barbados, and European — and deliver a consolidated reporting package on a predictable calendar
• Produce consolidated financial statements in USD, with currency translation performed against a published, internationally recognized rate source and a documented, defensible FX policy
• Prepare entity-level and consolidated P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow, with variance commentary the CEO can act on
• Build and maintain the close checklist, cutoff procedures, and supporting schedules so the close is repeatable and does not depend on any one person

• Own intercompany reconciliation across all entities: loans, capital contributions, management fees, expense allocations, and trade balances
• Establish standing intercompany settlement and elimination procedures so balances tie at the entity level, not just at rollup
• Investigate and clear legacy intercompany variances, and design the controls that keep new ones from forming
• Support transfer pricing documentation as the European entities come online

• Own landed cost accounting end to end: FOB cost, freight, duty, tariffs, and brokerage
• Manage accounting for supplier prepayments and deposits with overseas manufacturing partners, including vendor credit balances and open PO exposure
• Account for letters of credit, trade finance instruments, and supplier payment terms across currencies
• Work with customs brokers and freight forwarders on classification, duty recovery, and tariff exposure; monitor changes in trade policy that affect margin
• Own customer deposit accounting and the associated liability schedules

• Maintain the weekly consolidated cash flow model across all entities and currencies, and turn it into a forward looking view the CEO uses to make decisions
• Manage the operating credit facility — availability, covenant tracking, borrowing base, and lender reporting
• Own FX exposure and the group FX policy: an internationally recognized rate standard, rate setting for the model, translation versus transaction gain/loss, and practical hedging recommendations where exposure warrants it
• Manage banking relationships and multi-currency account structures across jurisdictions

• Own Canadian indirect tax…